VMware releases VSAN Beta refresh update

VMware has released an update for Virtual SAN (VSAN) beta. The software is currently available as a public beta and can be downloaded by anyone. The general availability of VSAN is not made public at the moment. Also pricing and which vSphere 5.5 editions it will support is unknown.

Updated in this Refresh are:

AHCI fix. There was an issue with VSAN losing data under certain conditions when certain AHCI controllers were used. This has now been fixed.

New Ruby Virtual Console Commands. For depth analysis of the performance of a Virtual SAN cluster

A disk group may now contain a single SSD and up to seven HDDs

a set of VSAN PowerCLi cmdlets have been released as a fling from VMware R&D